I have the sudden urge to make a straw man argument.

can't they just import some egg eating, bird killing snakes?

Crows are so freaking cool. That is all.

Iowa City is under siege by crows


Is anyone counting them?

No, that's the best part. In the wintertime, the gorillas will simply freeze to death!

A Fark Handle: can't they just import some egg eating, bird killing snakes?

That's worked pretty well for Guam.

I just wanted to say thank your deity of choice that they didn't release This! (new window)

It'll just attract the giant hummingbirds.

So, I guess Iowa doesn't have the death penalty for murder?

Couldn't they just dig up a bunch of dead people, revive them, then kill them again? That works in reverse, right?

Tell the crows that the city is a Mecca of yakitori.


/too obscure?

Voodoo_Stu: So, I guess Iowa doesn't have the death penalty for murder?

heh heh. I trying to think of a similar pun. Good show sir.

OregonVet: ZAZ: They sort of simulate an owl's eye

A pair of owls moved into the woods not too far from me. Big flocks of crows go there to tell the owls they are not welcome.

Yah, we have a pair of owls in our woods. Crows don't seem to avoid the area at all. The thing is with these is that the crows learn pretty quick they won't get ate and put them on ignore. At our marina each year someone puts owl sculptures on his dock poles and claims there is less shat on his boat because of them. Which is entirely untrue when compared to any other boat in the marina.

CSB:
About a year ago, we had a murder of crows outside our office window going b-a-n-a-n-a-s. My officemate made a comment, and I suggested there was probably an owl in one of the pine trees. Sure enough, there he was, 10' from our window, and he had a crow in his talons which he proceeded to eat over the rest of the afternoon. About a dozen crows berated him for nearly 3 hours before he felt comfortable snacking, though.

Dancin_In_Anson: There's a better way. (Awsomeness makes up for the shaky video.)

A better, better way here with more vids: Crow busters

What ever happened to the old days when, if there were too many of an animal, we developed tasty dishes based on them until they were extinct?

I used to live there in the 90s and there were billions of crows then. They'd blot out the sun, shrouding the earth in darkness- it was all very goth until you got shat on.

This is why I give peanuts to the crows around my house. I'm hoping they'll put in a good word for me when the crow revolution comes.

doomcake: I used to live there in the 90s and there were billions of crows then. They'd blot out the sun, shrouding the earth in darkness- it was all very goth until you got shat on.

Then you played Mrs. Jones and Evanescence in the shade?

I don't get it.

A necessary evil, I suppose.

Cedar Rapids controls crow flocks with the use of "crow coffins," dead crows attached to a piece of wood and hung from trees.

Just go straight to this method. Nothing else works. My company finally just cut the trees down out front. Bastards. Now we have the noisy scary thingers on the outside wall that were supposed to scare the crows away just anoying the hell out of me.

They should use red balloons. 99 of 'em.

I live in Iowa City, and I find this to be quite ridiculous.

next up. "Iowa suburbs inundated with crows. Hanging balloons wiht hopes of chasing crows to the city"

Are they black crows?

Dancin_In_Anson: There's a better way. (Awsomeness makes up for the shaky video.)

Thank you for my nightmare tonight!


GGGGAAAAHHHH

The King Beyond the Wall should be able to take care of that

Um. I've never met a crow that didn't love reflective materials. Those streamers seem like crow attractors.
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The cat that came with my house, a 17lb semi-feral that the neighborhood knows as an excellent ratter, became an indoor/outdoor cat after he was attacked by a crow and needed to be kept inside because of the infection. (Vet did a 2-for and neutered him while he sewed up the wounds, cat had a drain and IV antibiotics, etc.) Actually it was the kitty narcotics that turned him into a housecat. Every 4 hours on the dot he came over jonesing...never saw that in a cat before, went from "not sure I like humans" to "I love humans and their tuna flavored drugs."
He still has some nerve damage and arthritis and a big giant scar, and the vet said he's seen plenty of smaller cats and dogs killed by crows- if the nasty beaks don't rip out an important piece of flesh, the nasty germs they carry finish them off.
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/Typo thing: First time I hit add comment noticed it said "attacked by a drow." Buffalo apparently has a dark elf problem.

Voodoo_Stu

So, I guess Iowa doesn't have the death penalty for murder?


Murder most fowl?

Don't worry they're just waiting to feed on the Republicans Candidates who do poorly next week.

Englebert Slaptyback: Iowa City is under siege by crows


Is anyone counting them?

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret, never to be told

FTA: "They sort of simulate an owl's eye or a predator's eye," said Michael Moran



Really, is the internet on cruise control?

A gun loaded with blanks should take care of that.

poonesfarm: Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! fark, I'm dead!

"It can't rain all the time."

/FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP!

I caw bullshiat.

In Iowa City there will be protests and some will be sleeping in trees to show support for the crows.

Benjimin_Dover: Cedar Rapids controls crow flocks with the use of "crow coffins," dead crows attached to a piece of wood and hung from trees.

Just go straight to this method. Nothing else works. My company finally just cut the trees down out front. Bastards. Now we have the noisy scary thingers on the outside wall that were supposed to scare the crows away just anoying the hell out of me.

well that or kill about half of them.

/killing one or two will just make the rest angry
//vengeful and smart SOB's